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...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
Dutchman is, in many ways, a historical watermark. Written in the 60s by Amiri Baraka, the play is a radical case study of relations between the sexes across color lines, It's still particularly relevant and unfortunately may not be coming back to the Harvard stage anytime soon...
Part of the problem is her physical presence on the stage. Instead of the "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back" Amiri Baraka describes, Cohen is slight and much shorter than McNeal...
...however. He has a plausible amount of skepticism and reserve at the beginning, but waits too long to reveal hint of his inner rage. This results in some difficulties mustering up the emotional heat for his long monologue. Director Charles Guerrero has taken a different and interesting interpretation of Baraka's Clay: this Clay is pin-stripe suited, slightly effeminate, and it is hard to consider him physically threatening...
...Tombar, as the conductor, is definitely the best part of this production. His booming voice creates a hypnotic effect that starts and ends the play. The speech, taken from Baraka's poetry, is an excellent choice by Guerrero and adds further meaning to the already complex play...